good morning everyone I'm used to say
good
afternoon everyone can go ahead and take
a
seat let's go ah let's go ahead and call
the meeting to order Mr you
call yes
sir good morning everyone I'd like to
welcome you to the County Board of
supervisor govern Center at 9 on March
2024 I'd like start
off Andrew
Hensley
Wallace
David Rea
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stady you have
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Jo
item on the agenda approve the
agenda
understand
yes sir uh the first one is Matt Jordan
is not going to be able to attend this
meeting he has to be set the next agenda
so we can table that one and also the
Planning Commission is still doing some
revisions to their work so that will be
Ted till the next meeting
sirenda
changes so motion
have motion and second
any discussion not all in
favor any further
comments all in favor of this motion
I
okay now we have some
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presentations good morning um I would
just like to um thank you guys for
allowing me to come and give a
presentation to you all today um I know
you all got our 2023 annual report in
your January U board package
I just wanted to give a overview on some
things that we're getting ready to do in
2024 and um just thank you thank you for
allowing me to have this time um I'm
shalow little um I'm now Brooks but um
congratulations thank you um I do work
with our tourism advisory committee um
for Russell County I also sit on the uh
part of Appalachia tourism board um
tourism Authority board as a
representative in DMO which is
destination marketing Organization for
Russell County um if you want to
continue on the
presentation Mr
Lester say that again continue on the
presentation okay I'm sorry um just to
give an overview um our department works
primarily in um enhancing travel in
Russell County to promote um an increase
in tax revenue for the county so um we
work with a lot of organizations we work
with heart of Appalachia we also work
with the Virginia um tourism corporation
which we have a representative here with
us today she'll also be giving a
presentation on what BTC does for us in
Russell County um I work with the Clinch
River State Park and many more um along
with a lot of our local businesses
towns communities event organizers um
and so on so just to give some highlight
over the past year for the for the um
for the board we did launch a updated
website to um for Russell County we've
seen a drastic increase in the use of
that
site um we also had very um successful
social media ads and promotions that
have led to the to the um success of
that website we hosted the first annual
Heritage Festival this year at olda
County Courthouse it was very successful
um we are very optimistic going into our
second year of that Festival um through
the funds that we were provided through
Virginia tourism Corporation and arpa we
have developed a Russell County
adventure Guide um I believe each of you
received a draft of that if not I will
share that with you um those are
currently in the process of being
printed um and um waiting for approval
so we also were able to work with some
professional local photographers to
increase our professional photography
database which allows us to continue to
update our website with new um
businesses um images high quality and so
on so I just wanted to give an overview
of the economic impact for Russell
County um just just for the Clarity of
the board um we have surpassed our preco
numbers um from 2018 to 2022 we won't
get our 2023 numbers until the end of
this year um but we have surpassed those
numbers by over 200,000 and that's in
direct visitor spending so those are
visitors who are coming to our County
and spending their money um that that is
a that is and I'm very optimistic IC to
see what 2023 holds in those numbers
because we were so successful in this
past year and um a lot of the ads and
things that we have ran so um we were
also able to work on
um and and just just so you know we went
from um
20
25.7 um million dollars in um tourism
expenditures to
25.9 million in expenditures and those
again those are expenditures from people
who are coming outside of our County and
spending their money here um I have a
high hopes for us to continue to
increase our um tax revenue um we have
not um as of yet but I'm optimistic for
2023 to see what those numbers hold but
we have not reached our pre-co numbers
on tax revenue but we are close
um we are we are very close we're like
$10,000 away from reaching those numbers
so I'm very optimistic for
2023 um if you would like to continue Mr
Lester um just some Department goals for
this coming year um which a lot of these
we've already hit in 2023 but um we're
going to be expanding on further in 2024
um we're increasing our brand awareness
through the updated of our website the
success of our social media um we're
able to enhance that brand awareness um
which is experience Russell County
Virginia um we have gotten some some
great feedback from visitors who are
coming here we're getting a lot of
requests for brochures things of that
nature um we also have our content
marketing goals which is um showing and
engaging with our specific
demographic um and which also continues
into enhancing our Partnerships we're
enhancing our partners ship with local
organizations we're enhancing those
Partnerships with local businesses um
we're working with those businesses in
terms of providing information on
Virginia tourism marketing grants um and
things of that nature we're also making
sure that we're providing an immersed
experience for our visitors who are
coming here um making sure they have a
seamless and positive experience we want
everybody who's coming here whether
they're coming for a family reunion or
if they're coming just to visit if
they're coming from out town if they're
passing through we want to ensure that
they're able to have that positive
experience for sure um we're also
working on providing some networking
opportunities um for our industry
Partners to share information with our
tourism related businesses and
stakeholders in the community I'm
currently working with um hopefully
opportunity Southwest Virginia to work
on having those socials and um providing
that partnership there um all of this to
say we in we are optimistic and very
hopeful that um all these goals for 2024
is going to drive our tax revenue um for
Russell County so um moving on I just
wanted to share this information with
the community and with the board um the
Cumberland for Forest Community Fund
will be opening in March um this is an
opportunity for our local um communities
towns to put to um apply for funding
which is um obviously um focus on local
communities um and um investing in their
resources that they currently have so
once that information is shared I'll be
sure to share that with the board and
the public as
well um just to give a little update um
we are going to be having our ribbon
cutting for the Cleveland Boat Launch um
which is through partnership with the
town of Cleveland and the county um on
that will on March 26th at 10
a.m. um and just to give a little uh
preview we have our preconstruction of
the Cleveland Boat Launch um you can see
here in the post construction of that
boat launch um at and this is all
located at the riverb campground in
Cleveland um with that development um
they were also able to develop a picnic
shelter at the campground um which is
available for use as well as a
playground um and again this is just an
overview shot um all this was in
partnership with the nature conservancy
um and the cumland plateau planning
district to be able to provide this
opportunity for this enhancement in the
town of
Cleveland um and I would like to welcome
um Michelle Workman with the Virginia
tourism Corporation she's going to give
a breakdown of some data and some
resources that are available and things
that we've done over the past few years
for Russell
County good morning everyone um thank
you for having me this morning I am
Michelle Workman the senior destination
development manager for Virginia tourism
I get the to I get to work and live in
this region and help people like Shiloh
and our other tourism GMOs um and
tourism businesses and tourism product
initiatives in the region so Virginia
tourism our mission is to expand
domestic and international inbound and
motion picture production to generate
revenue and employment in Virginia and
how do we do that by promoting the
Commonwealth is a great place to visit
and have your vacation so I have some
packets of information I gave out to all
of you one of them has our travel guide
so this is one way we promote um the
state as a travel destination and you'll
see this is the Carter family fold
Edition so we're celebrating the 50th
anniversary of the Carter family fold um
so if you can take a look we have some
great events coming out coming up for
this year um and if you want
to
change okay um so sha talked a little
bit about your county levels first I'm
going to hit on our state um economic
impact so we saw 30.3 billion in visitor
spending um in 2022 and that is a 4%
increase over our 2019 levels so we are
going in the right direction um and that
is a total of $83 million spent every
day in Virginia
thank you um and I won't hit on this too
much because I know Shiloh did so with
that being said Russell County is
actually the third largest contributor
for visitor spending in the heart of
appacha region um and that sustained
4.5% of Russell County jobs in
2022 and then this is actually a
breakdown that you will also have in
your packet and it is the county county
level analysis so it shows the breakdown
of that visitor spending with
accommodations being 3 million food and
beverage 4.5 the retail being 12.6
Recreation 1.6 and then the
transportation
1.4 and then this is a breakdown of how
much it's saved each each household of
Russell County so it's about $215 a year
in tax savings um in 20122 and we hope
that increases in
2023 and then another thing that we
offer that is a great resource for our
tourism offices and our tourism
businesses especially when it comes to
doing grants is we have our points of
interest data so you all have these in
your packet as well but this is actually
Mobile location data so we track cell
phones and all of that data heavy things
and seeing how long they're staying in
locations and whatnot so if you want to
change the slide I'll show a sample I'll
show the two that I
included thank you um so this is Lebanon
Main Street so this shows um last
calendar year so January to December
31st and shows you know your top 10
counties within the state that are
visiting Lebanon it shows your top 10
msas um visits by days of the week and
then it also show shows the top 10 cross
visits so we have 800 of these in our
system across the Commonwealth um so we
have 11 in Main Street and then the next
one's going to be the Clinch River State
Park also shows the same data but this
is great information when you're working
on grants or um working on your target
markets and that kind of thing so you'll
see that one of the top 10 msas for cl
State Park time of SE so that's very
interesting information and then like sh
mentioned we have Grant programs and I
know she's working on one now and if you
want to change the slide there we go um
these are actually the past grants that
they have gotten since since Russell
County has gotten since 2016 and I did
forget to um list arpa which was $30,000
so we gave out an allotment across the
Commonwealth to all33 localities to help
um with the recovery marketing after Co
so that is a total of all those I know
Shiloh is working on a grant right now
um for you all and then there's some
others listed and if y would like a list
of those I can get that to you as well
um but you all have packets that have
all of our information so we have tons
of resources at Virginia tourism and
Shiloh is great to tap into everything
that we have um like I said I live in
the region I'm happy to come and sit
down with anyone who'd like to have
one-onone meetings I know Mr eat has
connected me with um potential people
starting tours and businesses and I've
had one-on-one meetings with them and
seeing their property in think that have
any questions my contact
yes looked at all these numbers and and
I've read as to how they're and
visitation
understand they calculate these numbers
they take all the hotel receipts mot
receips restant re
to it all
up so we actually also work with the
local treasurers so they we actually ask
for your locality data as well so and
that's all compiled um and done through
tourism economics and our research team
looks through that yeah but visitation
would
include people there for business
purposes yes it's a 50 you have to be
traveling um outside of 50 miles so we
count 50 miles yeah yes correct well so
this when you say these are tourism
not includ a lot of
work it would it include business travel
I would yes okay that's the only
question okay and I can get more
breakdown of data if you'd like me to
get that to
you okay thank all right any other
questions thank
you
yes
ma'am Mr chair that's good I got it um
so with that being said um I would like
to ask you and this board if we could
move forward with working on ordinances
that we have now that will allow
overnight St in airport
we don't have
that does anybody on board have any
issue with
that you know it's an if we have to have
an ordinance we need to go start working
we just I think that we have an
ordinance in place for recreation places
but we do not have anything that says we
support or we can have or overnight
stays am I correct Mr
ler yes yes ma'am you right now you have
a park and Rex
in place but the component when it wasil
did not have not stays in it because we
did not have facilities at that point so
it needs to be
updated Mr Le if you put that on the
agenda
futuree yes
sir okay next item is approval of
minutes for last board meeting February
3
opport motion second any
discussion not all in
favor okay next item is approval of
expenditures
everybody's need a motion that
so have a motion to have a
second I'll give you a second this is
moving forward right yes okay
I have a motion second any further
discussion not only fav
sign
Poes next item is
appoints I don't think we have any
appoint chair uh Mr currently as the
board has directed I'll
excuse
the uh the board has directed you know
all new applications be put in for the
board the authorities and the committee
so they're coming in and we also
developed a new application and so some
of the ones that came through at the
first or having to reput back in so
we're compiling those and those will be
ready for the board at the
next
hello Lonzo I need the tech guy here my
internet's not
working can everybody hear
me
okay I call your
name call your
name
please
my name is Dana Tucker I live at 121
Hillside Drive in Virginia you're using
Dynamic mics unless you move up close to
nobody's going to hear you Mr when I
told you that thing you did was set it
further away from you I couldn't hear
you and I know nobody else back there
going to be able to hear you have to get
up close
to on May 1st 2023 you placed in your uh
minutes you went to an executive session
and you were talking about matters legal
matters concern Moss 3 now this would
insinuate to me and these are all my
opinions that this board had to been
discussing this months earlier nobody
walks into a County board with a
multi-million if not billion dollar
proposition and you decide to have a
meeting on it the next
day during that time Mr breeding you and
they did a podcast pulling out a call to
everybody in Russell County to show up
even under unscrupulous circumstances
to oppose theise Orin and yet I look
around me I don't see no Christians
standing here excuse me I don't see any
people standing here talking as
Christians as a group saying that they
oppose it and that led us to believe and
started an investigation that we think
you honestly did this to
stop a bump in the road for this plant
because you have no noise ordinance that
you can judge any of this noise off of
and that's where we focused our
investigation as of this
point we have a website that's open to
all Russell County Citizens say Russell
county.com you made a comment that you
didn't hear from a whole lot of people I
didn't see it I think I've seen it once
I don't know what it was about but so
far at the end or hopefully the middle
of this month we expect to break half a
million
pays people are starting to understand
this every board member sitting here can
put your name on Google just your last
name type in Moss 3 mega Landfield and
you're coming to our
site okay and and we're going to tell
people what you're doing and we're going
to get their
opinion
now God I hate this part of it you make
enemies when you don't even try take
Miss wace I have nothing but respect for
you first time I thank every you person
was want to walk with earlier she's the
only one that contacted me back when I
offered to provide my services of 47
years as a dedicated sound engineer to
walk you through this noise ordinance
process I have the meters that you would
have needed she's the only one that
contacted me
back just so you
know when you say you didn't get the
email web Masters and you can verify
this with your County Administrator uh
that man's a lot smarter about tech than
I thought he was was or he getes the
impression of we can tell exactly when
it was open what IP address instantly if
you ever wonder how the cops come
kicking in your front door because
you're trying to pick up an
eight-year-old little girl they use the
same
system
okay the touris what these ladies just
talked about in these statistics I've
never heard those
before okay I know that we're probably
close to one of the fourest people or
communities in this in this stay and
those tourist dos should tell you people
enjoy camping that's what they do they
take their families and they go out camp
Okay so until then if y'all pass this I
will public refer to you as
public probable
murderers for future Generations I'd
like to have this officially submitted
into your
minutes that way if I take you to court
and you take me to court my defense
we SAR Sarah
[Applause]
dun let know these
are these are my reasons and I hope that
they will be your reasons too for saying
no to this
Landfield good morning ladies and
gentlemen my name is Sarah Duncan I live
I live in Raven Virginia I was raised in
Russell County and I lived here until I
was in my 30s my parents and family
still live here and my children spend a
lot of time on land that's been in my
family for decades just a few miles from
where this proposed site will be I'd
like to point you to two scripture
passages passages the first is Mark 12
30-31 which reads and this is Christ
speaking
and thou shalt love the Lord thy God
with all thy heart and with all thy soul
and with all thy mind and with all thy
strength this is the first commandment
and the second is like namely this Thou
shalt love thy neighbor as thyself there
is n other commandment greater than
these love your neighbor as yourself I
don't know you board members but I love
you with the love of the Lord and I know
that I know that if propositioned I
would never sign my name on a line to
put a harmful landfill in your
backyards no matter if a million job
matne was standing at my door knocking
for me to do
so because I wouldn't want that done to
me the second scripture I'd like to
highlight here is Matthew
10:26 which reads fear them not
therefore for there is nothing covered
that shall not be revealed and hi that
shall not be known I don't feel it as by
coincidence that Jennifer found what she
did when she did that informed her of
the plans of the Landfield if she hadn't
found what she did when she did we might
not have had time to fight nothing
covered that shall not be revealed and I
believe the Lord allowed that to happen
please don't do this to this County what
else do we the people have to do to
change your way of thinking on this we
begged pleaded cried and prayed and will
continue to pray I know some of you are
leaning towards yes on this and that's
your right you have been voted onto this
board for such a time as this Proverbs
29:2 says when the righteous are in
Authority the people Rejoice but when
the wicked beareth rule the people mourn
you talk about a people rejoicing if you
all vote no on this if you vote no Life
Will Go On for John matney and his
millions and I assure you they will be
just fine his life won't change no
matter how you vote but if you vote Yes
on this every single person and child in
Russell County and surrounding counties
will not be just fine we'll be stuck for
decades to come with other people's
rotting trash and there won't be a thing
we can do to stop
it what are you going to do with the
power that comes along with the seed the
Lord has allowed you to be in you will
either forever be known as the people
who sold us out out and our children out
or the ones who saved
us one day each of you and each of us
are going to have to stand before the
judge and he does not care who John
matney is and more importantly he cannot
be bought you know in your heart of
hearts what you should do and I'll be
praying that the good Lord will give
each of you the courage of our
convictions to Simply vote no and in
doing so you'll be saying yes to God's
blessings upon this County I believe
that I agree with r seden that there are
other options for this pie of land and
you just watch you say no and you just
watch what the Lord will bring this
County's way he will show out in the
words of the late Charles Stanley obey
God and leave all the consequences to
him thank
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you Josh bures
Josh Burgess 1857 Archer FR Southwest
Virginia I am very much opposed to SL
field ask question why are we here why
are all of us here
today why are all these wonderful people
here today because we all care and we
are extremely worried about the health
of our families friends neighbors and
the environment of Russell County for
Generations to come the Russell County's
greatest asset is the people the very
people you are all looking at here
today why do all these wonderful people
live in Russell
County because it is a
choice it is because we choose to live
here if we wanted Abington we would move
to Abington if we wanted to Bristol we
would move to Bristol Bristol County is
a hidden treasure and we the people
understand that
there is no amount of money influence or
political promise that would cause me to
turn a blind eye ignore or downplay any
concerns ideas or oppositions opinions
the wonderful people of Russell County
had to offer so I ask you our
Representatives not to just hear us
speak but to please listen to
us please listen to what we saying when
you step outside today please take
notice and appreciate that you do not
have a you you do not
have appreciate we do not have toxic
odor of a mega landfill in the air we do
not have hundreds of trucks build
without a state trash this destination
is one of the most protected biodiverse
locations in the
country we don't we do we we don't need
a sales pitch we all deserve the honest
truth y'all May wonder why Y show up at
every meeting why is he here when I
heard about this landfill the first
people that I contacted was the very
people that will write the permit for
the slam
field and I asked them what can we do
what can I do I need some guidance they
told me this was a would be a horrible
decision to set this l buil this
location and I said what do I need to do
they said you and your community need to
come together and support your Board of
Supervisors to vote know this thing
without their approval we cannot ride
perit that came from the horse's mouth
and that's why I'm here and I appreciate
y'all very much and thank
[Applause]
[Music]
youall Michelle
V
morning
everybody Michelle I live
Drive special auctions antique and
Firearms uh one of the things I just
wanted to come up here and say today is
when you all are trying to get
businesses to come in here to Russell
County which I think is wonderful please
don't forget your small buses my
business is growing by
um I am running out of room there is no
room
here I'm working on a few things that
I'm hoping that I can
get but we need more space space is not
readily available here in Russell County
for businesses that are mediumsized
um and we need it uh so please keep that
in mind the other thing that I want to
do is I want to pour my own way
everybody here tonight uh at 6:30 at 423
rard Avenue and H coner I will be having
a rally for Chuck Smith who will be
running for Senate against Tim K we are
trying to collect signatures uh to get
him on the ballot I will be in the back
here after the meeting if anybody would
like to sign and in no way does this say
that you support him that you will vote
for him or anything like that it just
puts his name on the ballot so that we
have him running in the
primary um other than that just remember
your small businesses that are already
here and already making an impact in
your county thank
you
dick Betty Dickinson 1880 har Valley
Road
Castlewood I want to I only have one
copy of each of
these I will give them to you Mr or to
who
Okay U the first they're both factual
information uh first is a scientific
paper entitled environmental and
socioeconomic impacts of
Landfield this is an international study
authored by multiple published and cited
experts they're outside the influence of
our state or local entities or persons
so it's completely
unbi it's quite technical a bit lengthy
so if you will look at it you'll see
I've taken the liberty of
highlighting pertinent information key
findings that this paper has after
looking at this there's many more
studies out there is it a wonder that
we're also against this Landfield coming
to our
County the second of these is a graphic
taken from our own Cumberland
Plateau planning region and local action
plan sumary in
2016 you can see right pretty easily the
red area the only red area in this
camland
Plateau that uh is is indicates the psgc
priority species of greatest concern or
need tier one these are critical
conservation species that face
Extinction they're in Russell County
nowhere else in come on Plat right where
this landfills
go uh I have yet to speak to
anyone even in this County or outside of
this County that is for this Landfield
coming in here no one you can raise our
taxes and ruin our property values and
environment we pay either way but at
least if you raise our taxes that only
costs us
money if you put in a landfill it will
cost us and you much much more than
money you do have the power to stop this
vote note
please I'm
done
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AO good morning
everybody it's so glad to see youly
morning Saturday my name isana boy I
live on 11 14 Lebanon
Virginia I'm a little man with heavy
Ukrainian accent so forgive me please I
hope you understand what I will tell you
I was here in December asking about
leaving the town and joining the
county I have come here today to check
if anyone has any update or information
about that between December meeting and
now I have been doing some research
sech and I found out that our property
is not actually with the town
limits during the public hearing back in
2007 by the Town and County they voted
to have a boundary adjustment which
included our
property however the map wasn't
update and wasn't recorded by the cour
of the
Court
according to paragraph 15
22234 of Virginia
law within 30 days after adoption of the
official map the governing body shall
cause it to be filed in the office of Cl
of the Circuit
Court based on all of this we are not
within Town
limits I checked with the clerk of the
court and the Russell County map wasn't
recorded after the boundary adjustment
either so as a resident of Russell
County I'm begging you to stop the town
from removing my son's
home excuse me and preventing him from
leaving
here the court has ordered me to move
his home by March J
I org need your help in this matter Mr
Breen and Mr Kaiser my family and I we V
for you you're representing us so I'm
asking you here today help us please Mr
ler IAL with you three times please
check the map please help
us and I have a short message for
citizens of the r
County okay uh
I I would like to tell you that I'm so
proud to be an American and I'm so
grateful that I live in this
country and this country was built on
this very important book this is our law
and this another book please don't let
our government take this away from us I
here
from which don't believe God believe me
it's wrong thank you very much thank you
for your
time second Mr Ring will you give me one
second um Mr
gilgore Mr gilgore U it sounds like the
uh by Miss boy uh information there that
the town and the county
we out of V we out of out of order with
the uh boundary move will you look into
that and uh if they are trying to remove
Miss Boyd's property from a
county sitting property not a town
sitting property need to speed there
needs to be a injunction put in in
place
please hold it down
please my name is Jared ring 149 Calvary
Baptist Road Castle Virginia U two
things I'd like to say before I get into
the meat and potatoes of my speech
please help Smit L taking someone's home
in the name of government bureaucracy is
monstrous now the second thing is that
was a wonderful presentation on AGR
tourism and pointing to some of the
business traffic that is a fraction of
that so you can discredit the tourism uh
industry's impact on our economy
presumably to make the land feel more
defensible is intellectually dishonest
and I did not appreciate it now the main
part of my speech 3 minutes is a long
time to listen to nonsense and a short
time to try to say something
the Rings came to Russell County
originally when Thomas and St ring were
given land here with their pions for
fighting in the Revolution and the War
of
1812 my family helped build this country
and this
County several of you have been a part
of the building the legacy of brussell
County too many of you done have done
admirable work in getting us new trails
new businesses uh even Charities to help
underprivileged children I've seen seen
a lot of you working right alongside me
at local festivals that help give towns
entertainment Recreation and stimulate
the
economy all of that Legacy everything
each of you has done to help this place
is threatened by the landfill you do
have the authority to reject this this
very board denied a landfill and
incinerator Proposal with an ordinance
in 1991 there is preced for rejecting
something exactly like
this do you want your legacy to be the
preservation of this place or turning
its primary industry into
garbage do you want your legacy to be
Trails or do you want it to be trash
beside every rail bed and
roadway do you want to be the board that
served the people who elected you or the
board that believe or that confirmed all
their worst beliefs about government do
you want your children and grandchildren
to remember that you serve with honor
and Integrity or do you want a shadow to
be over your memory when they grow to
see what you've done with
land think on what you want your legacy
to be I don't want my family's Legacy in
this County to end but I will not remain
here and wait for my family to get
sick I I will leave this place and so
will your children and grandchildren if
this landfill goes in trash is not an
economic plan for the future and I
cannot find a single area who has a mega
landfill that
prospers be honest and give us the
environmental report that our tax
dollars paid for ahead of the meeting
will we speak
about do the right thing and vote no on
this
[Applause]
land Sher
Patton good morning my name is Cherry
Patton I at 1326 Old Road in
Hansville now I thought a lot about what
I was going to say using my three
minutes to talk
about the dangers of putting a landfill
in the MOs 3 location and the
detrimental effect it would have on
tourism dollars and I was planning on
coming in here complete with backs
charts Maps Vault lines you know sink
holes and tourism dollars which I looked
into really enjoy the presentation
earlier too by the way but you know I I
was like okay you know they have to
listen to this and then I realized two
things number one we've been doing this
and y'all don't seem to care about the
facts at least that's my
perception and again because this is not
a question answer none of us really know
what's going on in anybody's head so
again my ception is yall don't
care the second thing I
realized was this was your job as a
Board of Supervisors to do your due
diligence y'all were aware of the
potential and the huge scope 6,000 tons
of hazardous waste every single day
coming into this County y'all were aware
of this private landfill long before the
people of Russell County
you should have led the charge to
determine the risk and the
liabilities instead yall worked in
secret behind closed doors leaving we
the people to play
catchup the only thing that I see that
you have done is spend over $50,000 for
a feasibility study for a private
landfill that will ruin our area solely
to benefit a few multimillion
that's $2,000 for every man woman and
child in Russell
County you spending taxpayer dollars on
behalf of John matne makes about as much
sense as Bill Gates inviting me to lunch
and then me picking up the tab thank
y'all Amy
Garrett
good morning I'm Tammy Garrett I live at
336 Russell Street in
Lebon I'll begin with the known hazards
and dangers of land Fields the pollution
to our air water streams and groundwater
land Associated Vermin noise and smells
and the damage to our roads taxpayers of
wrestle County will eventually pay the
price for all these types of pollution
we know from research that all landfills
eventually leak I presented that
information before taxpayers will pay
for that as well this landfill will be a
mega landfill it will eventually be
almost as big as the largest one
currently in Virginia that landfill is
in Waverly Virginia it's 1300 Acres this
proposed Landfield is to be 1250 acres
and will be used for decades and that's
according to Russell County Reclamation
in their printed
material the largest landfill in the
world is the Apex landfill in Nevada
it's 2200 Acres at capacity it accepts
10,000 tons of garbage a day this
proposed Landfield would accept 6,000
tons of garbage a day again this will be
a mega
landfill what our tourist board want to
add come experience Virginia's largest
landfill next how are the facilities at
this site to be paid for there's no
infrastructure on the site there's no
wastewater treatment plant no place for
trucks and trains to be washed out where
would this remaining waste and
Wastewater go into the streams in the
groundwater onto the Land There is an
abandoned underground mines chain Creek
deep mine that runs 8 miles deep there
no problem for the water to seep
in our group say no to the landfill at
Moss 3 which has over 2,000 members on
Facebook now has found enough evidence
to show that this project has been
mishandled and misrepresented from the
very beginning board members should be
extremely hesitant to vote in agreement
for this landfill until further Evidence
is forthcoming this project should in
fact be started over with transparency
and with a Citizens committee okay
that's required by code last I ask that
all printed documents submitted from
past meetings and from today should be
entered into the record of these
meetings as it appears the County
Administrator has not shared all the
presented information with board members
Lou Wallace and Nathan Kaiser are the
only board members who have responded to
my concerns in
[Applause]
[Music]
solidarity Timothy
hand8
DG well I broke two or three things say
I kindly come here to I guess plead
on I mean
know
morality is principles
concerning the distinction between right
and wrong good and bad
behavior Christian
leadership
integrity
Integrity is True Heart of
leadership without Integrity a leader
talks lacks honesty honor and ethics the
Bible
teaches the righteous who walks in his
Integrity walks
secur Proverbs
109 the world needs leaders who clothe
themselves in
don't I
know
more I don't
want
SC I'm just
[Applause]
no morning everyone I've never haven't
met you all well I know I haven't met
you all till today my name is Randy
Collins 308 Farmland Drive leanon
Virginia um I'm from Smith County
originally I married my husband Brandon
Collins and we've been here since 2008
um I love Russell County I love
Southwest Virginia um a little bit about
me is I started my career in Pharmacy
about 13 years ago so I've been in it
for 13 years I've been battling what I
feel like as the drug
side the Appalachian region and it's not
I'm definitely not the popular one but I
can relate to what you guys are going
through because in my job every day I
have to remind myself I work for Jesus I
don't work for people and my what I take
pride in is keeping drugs off the street
so if I see something coming in to my
area to my little community and it's
coming out of
Richmond I'm like this isn't right this
is a high quantity I don't want drugs on
the street so again it's not a popular
job it's not a hard job I don't get
thanked you know until recently the DEA
probably the only one that ever say
thanks to me right so got that going for
me um so I can relate to what you guys
are going through when it comes to that
but I just want to remind you like here
I am today 13 years later and I'm like
let's keep trash off the streets you
know let's not take five different
states trash into our County let's keep
be County beautiful you know Smith
County is beautiful Russell County is
beautiful I really like the tourism that
they presented and um you know I just
want y'all to know that I'm here for
y'all you know we support you guys we've
seen some signatures we've seen some
Deeds Grant monies dates and things and
yeah there are a lot of questions but
the main one that I have is where do we
go from here like how can we all come
together and figure something else out
for our local trash that doesn't bring a
mega Landfield because I want my kids to
to live here and come back here so I'm
just begging you guys to just consider
you know saying no keeping it out of
here just saying no and know that we got
your back like it doesn't matter what
y'all done you know I don't care you
know I look forward to meeting all of
you all on a personal level and helping
you you know industrial let's bring it
in let's bring it in but let's bring it
in a different way so I just want yall
to vote no for this Landfield thank
[Applause]
you King
Jr good morning
I'm not going to take time to speak
against that however I will say this
hypothetically if this facility is
allowed to come into the county it would
be my hope that as much revenue as
possible come into Russell
County C because I don't know people
What's happen over in County about tax
ass I one person said they concerned
about taxes going up a
40% hike in taxes I don't know what's
going to do y'all but I know what's
going to do me and it's something we
need to all be thinking about once again
I'm talking about past this if it's
approved that people Ste see that Russ
County gets as much re possible
out
thank
one
dearly I live at
clinchfield
address this would be very close to
where I
live
and I am opposed to the land at MOS
number
three I believe that some of you are
Christians and Jesus loves you and wants
to save anyone that is
lost there's a lot of people in our area
that's praying that this landfill will
not go
in every person is precious to God and
worth
something what if your son or your
daughter or your parents or your babies
lived near Moss 3 if it was a
landfill we're supposed to love our
neighbors as
ourselves and you are my
neighbors
honesty in
business in Jose
12:7 the merchant uses dishonest scales
he loves to
defraud we hear and read much about
corruption and questionable tactics in
business world the abuses are symptoms
of humankind's
greed found in societies the world over
Jose describes this greed in the words
of our text he shows that desire for
gain acquired by deception at the
expense of the buyer it occurs
frequently the merchant who resorts to
deceit the storekeeper who gives
customers short weight the dealer who
Miss labels The Goods the salesperson
who hides the defects of a product all
of these May deceive the buyer but their
craftiness does not escape the Lord's
Scorn the Commandment Thou shalt not
steal applies to dubious deals that are
passed off as good
business it is of course possible to be
a Christian business person and then
adhere to the principles of a fairness
and honesty this is
the only policy that wins God's
approval the eyes of the Lord are in
every place beholding the evil and the
good but he that doeth wrong shall
receive for the wrong which he has done
and there is no respected
person and you can't fight against God
please don't let this come into our
area
hi everyone I'm Brie of Mountain View
California formerly
virgia I'm here today because I think
every single person in this room has the
same goal to make Russell County better
but there seems to be a misalignment on
how we think that we can get there to
the Board of Supervisors I have a lot of
for you most of you came into your roles
when we when Russell County was in a
declining economy surrounded by other
counties who are fighting for survival
as well but this community has shown
that we care and that we're here uh to
stand behind you as long as we feel
heard you know I grew up in Cleveland on
a tobacco farm went to the University of
Virginia and and obtained a mathematics
degree followed by an MBA from the D
School of Business and spent most of my
career um at one of the top management
consulting companies the world and I
bring this up for two reasons one there
seems to be a misperception that our
community is stupid and that's been used
as a reason to dismiss many valid
concerns that the citizens have
raised um and you know I say all the
time that some of the folks that I grew
up with can go head tohe with all of the
brilliant folks that I work with they
just didn't have the same privileges or
chose a different
Lifestyle the second reason I bring this
up is to show how incredibly qualified I
am when I say that this landfill is not
a smart financial decision any tax
revenue gained will likely be offset by
the cost of the damage it will cause to
our incredibly biodiverse natural
resources as well as the declining
population of folks moving out of the
county not to mention the opportunity
cost of all all of the industries that
will not come here if there is a mega
landfill you know I'm sure Russell
County Reclamation has sold you on the
potential of the landfill maybe the
methane can create energy maybe the Lee
can be used to pull data centers but
their job is to sell you on the upside
and not the downside when you look at
the risk profile the downside of
damaging our most precious resources and
our agricultural economy far outweighs
any May and whites that they're trying
to sell you and I'm sure the co
Executives made the same Sals when they
were giving millions and bonuses to the
executives while the miners who quite
literally broke their backs for them um
couldn't receive healthare and I'm sure
that and I'm sure that the same thing
happened when Purdue Pharma sent their
sales reps into our region first with uh
to Market
oxycotton and it's time to look at these
unethical corporations in the face and
say no more praying on Russell County
thank
[Applause]
you Larry
Hughes Larry
Hughes
really my name is Larry Hughes I live 30
Drive in Leon probably where the crow
flies I'll be about four to about five
miles from the land so I guess I'll have
a concern in those two ridges over I am
still concerned with it I do want to
thank the board for stepping up and
being representing the citizens of this
count I know we have a very diverse
background we got people with business
degrees a business business engineering
farmer background the school system
again parents and I hope you take your
background as they bring across group of
people come together reason conclusion I
would ask a board brought new members up
the steam up to to business operations
for what problems we had in the past
what we're facing with so we need to
make sure we are being trained that way
they're not they need to be aware of
that you are elected to represent the
people and again I've got mix motion on
this on this Landfield right now I'm
still I'm still torn but I think we need
transparencies in all your dealings I
don't think there's been enough
transparency in the fast with this board
to come here I know first time I heard
about this was probably in June of last
year 23 and I think it was well before
then I'm going so if it's if it's
knowled for that that should be brought
for people so we would have we feel like
you stuffing things down throat without
chance what's going that's that's not
good repres those transparency is
important the lanfield is a legal status
can the county stop if you can you need
to take you need to take this in serious
consideration if you can't stop it just
tell it can't be stopped it's it's going
to be a done deal then let's make the
best of do what you can to protect the
citizens but again if you can stop you
need to listen to people that's what the
people want but the county is going to
have to have land fuel somewhere or some
way to expose the trash I think we w't
be running problems in near future if we
don't have something this way done but
again listen to you concerned citizens
we elect to you to represent all the
citizens of the county those for and
those against of us again concerning
citizens again I my concerns that the
land fuel if it fail there's a failure
if this company comes in they get it
going they realize they're not making
money they file bankruptcy we walk away
are we do we have high enough bonds that
will take care of the environmental
impact Clean us up are we going to be
stuck with about to many things we are
so again that needs to be make sure
you're taken care of again health
concerns I've got kids grandchildren
great grandchildren I'm worried about
that I don't know whether it can be done
whe it's be done right or not they saved
those M Landfield unit states do work
well and others are not BR example on
not so again there's a funny problem
when money got tight and thefield got
bad so that that wor me if the
businesses get tight well this get bad
so those are things I hope you're taking
into
consideration what's the environment
long-term effect is it going to hurt our
families is it going to hurt our kids
this going to hurt our nation this
County Citizens here is it going to hurt
those are things you need to really be
considering I don't know I'm sure you
are but I'm telling you these things I'm
worried about again need we do need to
have a land I think in the future how
we're going to do it need to again uh
just make sure we develop something in
future again I have a motion I quite
about it not
sure thank
you
Christian or
good morning everyone I'm or Christian I
reside at the big city creek section of
Russell County I want to say I've served
on this board for four years as
supervisor at large when I was campaign
for that position I told people I would
vote the way I thought was right and
best for the citizens of Russell County
and when this Landfield situation come
up in the Chamber of Commerce for I let
them know that we were um
acquired a consultant and advisor on
this landfill situation and I very soon
took position that I'll be against the
landfill I've been against the S when I
campaign for this last season I put out
on Facebook newspaper my Poli handout
that I was a no for the Landfield today
I am still no for the Landfield I do not
support it in any way I like I spoke
last Bo meeting I know we're going to
have to do something our trash Russell
County for Russell County Citizens that
doesn't mean that we got to open up
Russell County for all the other
counties of Virginia and sub to all the
states in the United States so we're
going to have to get a solution to this
but I do not think that we need what
that they get get put before us as a
landfill for us County let's than hard
and sincerely what is best for CTI see
if we can't work out something besides
what they got proposed before us now
thank you very
much David
Dingus my name is David Dingus I live on
graic um on the way to this meeting this
morning my father and I measured it so
this Landfield is going to go in about
about 3 three and a half miles from my
home um I've been a resident in Russell
County for 44
years I fortunate enough to live in my
family home and along with some of the
other folks here today I expressed
concern over this Landfield coming in
and as I understand it this is a
completely up to the Board of
Supervisors on whether or not this
Landfield comes in according to the
remail emails and information that I've
read uh the delegates say that this is
completely in the hands of the Board of
Supervisors and from standing here
today uh I don't understand what we're
doing here like I don't understand why
this can't be addressed quickly you guys
have the opportunity to set the minds of
several concerned citizens at
e
um you know like the lady over here said
earlier I think there's a
misconception about the level of
intelligence of the folks that live in
this
County and why I do not have a degree
in you know biology or Environmental
Studies what I do have a degree in is
human
behavior and I think it's quite clear
that
anything that is done in the
Ark is meant to intentionally to be
deceptive um we're not going to be
allowed to see the environmental
study that to me it doesn't appear
deceptive it is
deceptive I
would very much encourage
you since you do have this
power to say no to this
Landfield you know I like some other
folks here today have said I could have
left Russ County and I hear folks all
the time say oh there's nothing to do
here and it's awful here well that's not
true it's it's what you make of it and I
decided to stay here because I love it
here and I have a family here and I want
my family to stay
here
and I
cannot stand up and spout lots of facts
and figures for you
but somebody mentioned empathy and for
you folks I would encourage you folks to
use a little bit of empathy you know how
would you like trash to be piled up in
your backyard how would you like folks
to decide you're going to bring trash
from other areas and put it in in your
backyard that's all I have to say thank
you thank
[Applause]
you
Walter
Dingus my name's Dingus I also live on
gra for five generations in this County
I don't know how
long the Reclamation of Russell County
that I have read on mine and looked at
it's a total F this is a company that
goes in there and promises you Roses and
Rainbows but the only thing they're
interested in is
money and I don't want this County to be
rued by
money each one of you were elected by
your
constituents and each one of you I'm
sure when you
campaign told your constituents you had
their best interest at home so you tell
me how you can put a toxic eyesore in
this County when the people entrusted
you to do the right thing this is not
about money this is about the people of
this County I Hey listen we're going
have to hold it down in audience please
let gentlemen
speak now this morning when we started
here we had a prayer we pledge
allegiance to the flag in that Pledge of
Allegiance one of the things that sticks
in my heart every day I fly a flag in my
yard on gravick road every day one of
the things that sticks to my heart is
liberty and justice for all not just
Rich greedy
corporations now each one of you have
made a promise to the citizens of
Russell County each one of and I'd
appreciate it if you would me an
eye each one of have made a promise to
the citizens of this County your
constituents they have put their trust
in you to look after their best interest
and I
would be
so
gratified if you would take that
seriously and put their in s heart not
money not greed not
corporations because these are the
people of us count there's already one
Landfield a mile from where they're
going to put this one in
there an Old County landfill so why does
this end of the county need to be The
Dumping Ground of the whole County
because there's no subdivisions there
nobody has any law offices there no
business over there but these people
don't matter just throw it over there
well if you allow them to do that here
each one of you in here needs to know
that someday it'll be in your
backyard and if that's what you want
is that what you want is that what you
want to do to people wruss
count we don't need trash from all over
this country in our
backyard this whole area in here has
been raped Enough by mining by Timber
nothing reclaimed and this socalled
reclaim was all for profit they went
through the old slate dumps fill her the
coal out sold it for
money
well I hope that my time is not
up can that's all I can
say Dr Amy
BR
Amy my name is Dr Amy Branson and I've
spent years in Regulatory Compliance and
usually if something seems fraud
fraudulent and inaccurate
it is I'm begging the board to consider
all the other information that we have
that potentially shows that this is a
convoluted inside job to destroy our
community and make money not to be the
saving grace to the county that they
promise that it will be the board has
stated time and time
again that delegate Kilgore is not the
board's legal council involving
Landfield matters but when my foer
request for the potia study
which was contracted by the county and
paid by the county was igned by Mr
Lester it was delegate Kore who invoked
legislative privilege to put off my
court case conveniently until after the
host agreement meeting this this is not
a simple foia violation this was a
landfill matter I should have the right
to deal with the Board of Supervisors
Landfield attorney Gentry lock not
delegate
Kilgore is delegate
Kore is delegate Kilgore representing
the Landfield or not it seems this is
the issue and in this issue he was
delegate Kilgore participates in many
agencies including the Tobacco
Commission and The dmme amler Advisory
Board both these boards gave M grant
money to Russell County Reclamation and
project reclaim with John matney the
board States time and time again that
they want full transparency then give us
transparency give us the Posta study
without us having to take you to court
stop making every request for
information impossible stop being so
difficult with our foyer request most of
this information you should have
provided to the citizens already the
Board of Supervisors and the Ida were
both non-compliant with Foya and this
could be easily remedied by providing
citizens with what they deserve
information if you want transparency
give us transparency as citizens of
Russell County we deserve the
information to make educated decisions
you're the problem here you're
withholding information and hindering
our ability to even have input the Board
of Supervisors needs to limit the
ability of the Ida after its many
unsuccessful Ventures there should be
more oversight in this process when
there are millions of dollars of grant
money involved what happen to project
whale even the town of St Paul knows a
bad deal when they see one and we thank
them for supporting our movement they
have written you a letter of opposition
so take heed this won't negatively just
affect the citizens of Russell County
but will have detrimental effects on
Southwest Virginia and Beyond you can
pass an ordinance to block the Landfield
you can vote down the host agreement you
have the power to stop this trash train
dead in its Tracks please use your
powers wisely as others around you may
not have I would also like to take the
time to thank the tourism board Michelle
and shaloh for that information and if
we had given them $7.7 million in grant
money we'd have a boom in tourism and
[Applause]
economy Christin Christine
cell I don't want to point fingers I
don't place but we do need Solutions we
need to solve CommunityWide issues but
we don't need to solve those issues with
the land I ask you all to really close
your eyes and think about your future
your children's future what do you see
you really do have an opportunity to be
heroes you know for this whole County
and even our neighboring counties we
could have one of the largest trail
system in State Park in Southwest
Virginia if things are correct you know
we can build a community that our
children will grow to love in turn
keeping it for
generations with endless endless
opportunities you want a strong
Community focus on them while also
maintaining economic long-term value but
economic growth of 30 to 35 employees
that is laughable when the vision is so
much more we are more valuable than that
we are a strong culture we are a
persistent culture and we are an
dependent culture it's about time we
shine the light on all the things that
Russ county has to offer we were
promised manufacturing and Recreation
not the statistically ble future you are
negotiating air land is not negotiable
air land is workable and let our future
Generations bring it back to life so I
do plead with you to find Solutions find
Solutions let us collectively show the
rest of the area how those Solutions can
be
and it's going to be working
together thank
[Applause]
[Music]
you m Mr BR could you restate that
lady's name I did not get it I
not that
Christina
apologize okay next Kurt
sers
I'm here today to ask you all to vote no
I've he so many rumors and I haven't
heard anything about how you all feel
and I think we deserve deserve that I
think as a Citizens we deserve to know
how you all feel about
it there's an old saying that silence is
golden well your silence is not golden
it's defening with the questions that we
have as
Citizens and uh the first question that
all of us would ask and I don't know the
answer is how do you feel about how are
you going to vote and I think we deserve
that
the public meetings and I I heard what
John matney said I know how he feels
about
us he feels like that we're a sparely
populated area and a bunch of poor
ignorant people that's basically what he
said and uh I need to know how you all
feel about this the people of carbo have
suffered for
Generations from the dust and the
pollution that came from the power PL
they finally did away with that and now
you're going to put a a Landfield in
here and a private
landfill if the county needed a landfill
was $7.7 million in grant money and I
keep hearing it called grant money
that's tax money that came from
somebody and what could the county have
done with $7.7
million and as I drive down the Clinch
River and I look at the water basin down
through there what could we have done
for tourism with $7.7 million for the
Clinch River
area the people of Cleveland have
suffered too long and too much
and I heard this man that John matney
hard and brought up from Florida and he
quoted a lot of facts and figures and he
he quoted about a a successful Landfield
out East Virginia and I researched it
and uh he said they
built they the county got enough money
to build new schools 30 second well I'm
asking you if you get enough money from
this will you build a new school over in
carbo I
sit some people work all year to go to
the beach I work all year to sit on my
back deck and it's the most peaceful
place that I've ever
seen I invite all of you all come to the
March 8 meeting we need to you all say
you can't answer questions here if you
come to March 8th meeting you can talk
there and and answer our
questions thank you
[Applause]
Tammy Miller Tammy
Miller two for the price of
one Tam Larry Miller from John S Hill
Al we want it to be known to all of
y'all that we do not
want you can sit back here and think
about things and just say you do
everybody needs to voice to yall that we
do not
want we live right up on the hill from
the train tracks that come through
that's going to hul everything
through and we lived away from here
years ago and we come back home because
we wanted to ra our children children
her girl her grandchildren here and we
just want you to take into consideration
to all the people that have spoke to you
against
this versus the people that talked to
you for
this we ain't want to take no three
minutes up we just want everybody on the
panel to know that we do
not and my concern is their children and
their grandchildren health issues and
Asthma and thing that goes with it's
going take us off and a lot of sick
people
here that's my concern thank you for our
[Applause]
time
Larry
your
name hello my name is Chad Terry and um
I live out on grael road um just right
down the road for Mr Dingus and it's
about two and a half miles um from where
we live there and our water is the
greatest water in the world to come
straight out of the tab you ain't got to
worry about buying bottle water if
anybody wants to fill a jug up come to
the house it is the most amazing water
in the world and we don't want to be a
third world country taking everybody
else's guard they may think that we're a
third world country down here below
Richmond Rono and treat us like that and
you know there's whole islands of places
that have trash that that's that's
really the islands are growing but it's
garbage and if we do that here um I'm
you want to have
problems y not I'm not going to have any
problems y'all G have problem because
I'm gonna be dead in about 20 years you
know what I mean y'all's kids y'all's
you know legacies are going to be there
not M um and uh I just want to say no to
the all Street plan I think that
everybody should um stop thinking about
the money for just a second and uh stop
start thinking about each other but
that's me that's my D and I
my
Cara car
11 hi my name is Cara couch I'm a
lifelong resident of Russell County I've
lived at 91n at Hollow 30 years and I'm
here to ask you to vote no on the L I
will keep this fairly brief I sent each
of you a very long detailed email with
all my thoughts on the matter thank you
responding um the landfill isn't in the
best interest of anybody in this room
nor any Resident of this County I've yet
to hear one good thing about this
project from anybody inside or outside
which may explain the lack of
transparency surrounding it why should
we all have to show up at 9: a.m. on a
Saturday to ask you not to ruin our
beautiful landscape with a landfill that
is basically 300 times the size of fail
dump at Bristol we're here because this
is our home this is where a lot of us
are raised we don't want to see our
homes literally Trashed by business
venture that will fail in a few years
the environmental impacts are huge the
health effects are scary the financial
impacts will be enormous and we the
citizens will be on the hook for it do
the right thing please you do have the
power to stop this at this point it is
in your hands we will support you if you
support us protect your home protect
your citizens
please
B Jennifer
CH good
morning so my name is Jennifer chumble
and my new address is next door to Moss
3 uh Cleveland
Virginia so you know most of these folks
have said most of my points I know that
you guys get the points but I think you
know I look at your faces and one thing
I want to point out is it did say
decades that's that's what they're
asking for decades of putting trash in
our area that's on the eq's website you
can read it straight in their letter but
you know one thing that's been brought
up is the ordinances you know the 2017
ordinance opened the door for private
landfills after some research 2010 has
the same exact language in it
91 we actually banned private landfills
in this area that is a fight that
happened after the fact of a company
trying to come in here with a thermal
Burn Unit you know you can read the
newspaper clippings for that so I think
this that I will present to you guys
afterwards I made you each a Coffey
you can look over it because I won't
have time to get to all of it but you
know one thing we look at is that
there's different companies involved in
this and it gets confusing because you
got Russell County Reclamation and then
you got Nova Company of Virginia you
know and they're working simultaneously
with each other but they're not doing
the steps properly and if they can't get
step one correct with the DEQ how can we
ever trust them to get anything correct
how can we trust them to bring
in trash into our area I mean they
couldn't even get the notice of intent
correct you know they advertised as
Russell County
Reclamation but their Nova company is
the one proposing the Landfield so you
know there's an issue straight off the
bat so we got two different companies as
we all know there's no wastewater
treatment plan over there Cleveland
can't handle it nor do we want to Route
Cleveland's Wastewater to this
location um I spoke about the notes of
intent the fact sheets basically say you
guys have the power
everybody we've contacted say you guys
have the power that's DEQ that's our
legislators that's everybody they say
it's a local issue and that this needs
to be decided by this board that's why
we keep coming back that's why we keep
asking you to vote no I've looked at the
host agreement I provided Nate a copy
with some notes on it I'm going to
provide each of you of that and you know
there's issues that this host agreement
has been said that if if you guys vote
no Manuel take us to court okay he'd
have to win it he'd have to win that
battle then above that he would have to
go back and negotiate a host agreement
with him this is not a special host
agreement it's a pretty standard one
there's better ones out there there's
some with good neighbor programs there
property Assurance programs so I've made
notes on it I'm G to hand you each a
copy of it I guess I'll give it to Lonzo
he can hand it out to you guys I made
you each a copy but it's a devastating
environmental impact on our Waters our
streams our Wildlife our area so we ask
that you vote no please and
[Applause]
solidarity that
cones yeah let's let's take about a 10
minute
recess we'll come right
back